Look who’s got a new platform from which to launch the next phase of her political career.
Egged on by Bill O’Reilly, who asked what about her the “pinhead” liberals find so threatening, Sarah Palin made her debut as part of the Fox News team. It’s the “common sense conservative solutions,” said the new Fox News analyst, in a halting, nervous first performance. “But what about you, personally?” O’Reilly pushed. “They’re going after you!”
Poor Sarah, having to withstand criticism. O’Reilly indicated she can count on Fox News to prop her up, anytime. She still didn’t articulate policy points or legislative particulars, but she did repeat the people’s insistence on “common sense solutions.”
O’Reilly played fair (if not quite balanced), asserting that a McCain-Palin administration wouldn’t have been able to bring unemployment under control, either. Get government out of the way of the private sector, Palin responded.
She’s preaching to the choir on Fox News as the political divide deepens, at least as represented on cable news.
Ultimately, the more she talks, the longer she’s allowed to wander unscripted, the worse she’s going to appear.